Workforce Planning & Total Rewards Specialist

About the role

Woodlands Hospital, part of NHG, is looking for a highly analytical, data-driven professional to shape workforce decisions that support organisational growth, operational needs and financial sustainability. The role focuses on workforce planning and partners with HR, Finance and business units on manpower planning, governance and workforce analytics. It also offers exposure to the Total Rewards portfolio, including compensation and rewards initiatives and annual rewards cycles.

Key responsibilities

• Drive the annual manpower planning and budgeting cycle, forecasting workforce requirements and manpower costs with Finance and HR Business Partners
• Evaluate, challenge and rationalise manpower requests against organisational priorities, approved headcount and budget
• Strengthen workforce governance through frameworks, policies and monitoring mechanisms
• Design dashboards and management reports on workforce metrics, utilisation and budget performance
• Manage manpower reporting for internal and external stakeholders and simplify and automate processes
• Monitor manpower funding utilisation, coordinate funding submissions and claims, and support audit and compliance
• Support the annual Total Rewards cycle, including salary reviews, bonus exercises and rewards programmes
• Manage day-to-day rewards operations and compensation matters, and conduct market benchmarking and ad-hoc compensation and benefits studies
• Support group-wide rewards initiatives, process enhancements and system projects

Required profile

• 4-6 years of relevant experience in workforce planning, total rewards or a similar analytical role
• Strong analytical mindset able to manage and draw insights from large, complex datasets
• Comfortable working in ambiguity and solving business challenges with data
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills
• Proactive and curious, with a drive to improve processes, insights and outcomes

Required skills

• Knowledge of budgeting, financial planning or cost management is an advantage
• Dashboard development and data visualisation tools such as Power BI are an advantage